Wei Xu
465 Soda Hall – RAD Lab
University of California at Berkeley, CA 94720
xuw@cs.berkeley.edu
(510) 6121601
EDUCATION
University of California at Berkeley
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Certificate in Management of Technology (MOT)
Advisors: Prof. David Patterson and Prof. Armando Fox
Berkeley, CA
Dec. 2005 – July, 2010
Dissertation: Detecting large scale system problems by mining console logs
University of California at Berkeley
M.S. in Computer Science, GPA: 3.95 / 4.00
Research Advisor: Prof. David Patterson
Berkeley, CA
Aug, 2003- Dec. 2005
University of Pennsylvania
B.S. Eng. in Computer Science, Summa Cum Laude, GPA 4.00 / 4.00
with Electrical Engineering Minor
Philadelphia, PA
Sept. 2001- May. 2003
Tsinghua University
Major in Computer Science
Beijing, China
Sept. 1999 - Aug. 2001
PUBLICATIONS
Using Machine Learning Techniques in Console Log Analysis
Wei Xu, Ling Huang, Armando Fox, David Patterson, and Michael Jordan
Invited paper/talk in the 27th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML’10), Haifa, Israel, June 2010
Online System Problem Detection by Mining Patterns of Console Logs
Wei Xu, Ling Huang, Armando Fox, David Patterson, and Michael Jordan
In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM’ 09), Miami, FL, December 2009
Large-scale system problem detection by mining console logs
Wei Xu, Ling Huang, Armando Fox, David Patterson, and Michael Jordan
In Proc. of the 22nd ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP’ 09), Big Sky, MT, October 2009
Mining console logs for large-scale system problem detection
Wei Xu, Ling Huang, Armando Fox, David Patterson, and Michael Jordan
In Proc. of the 3rd workshop on Tackling Computer Systems Problems with Machine Learning Techniques (SysML’08), San
Diego, CA, December 2008
Regulating workload in J2EE application servers
Wei Xu, Zhangxi Tan, Armando Fox and David Patterson
In Proc. of the 1st International Workshop on Feedback Control Implementation and Design in Computing Systems and
Networks (FeBID’06), Vancouver, Canada, April 2006
Predictive control for dynamic resource allocation in enterprise data centers
Wei Xu, Xiaoyun Zhu, Sharad Singhal, and Zhikui Wang
In Proc. of the 10th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations & Management Symposium (NOMS'06), Vancouver, BC, Apr. 2006
Feedback control theory and processing system log streams
Wei Xu
Master thesis, EECS Department, UC Berkeley, December, 2005
Control considerations for scaling event processing
Wei Xu, Joseph L. Hellerstein, Bill Kramer and David Patterson
In Proc. of the 16th IFIP/IEEE Distributed Systems: Operations and Management (DSOM'05), Barcelona, Spain,
October 2005
A flexible framework for statistical learning and data mining from system log streams
Wei Xu, Peter Bodik and David Patterson
In Proc. of Workshop on Temporal Data Mining: Algorithms, Theory and Applications at The Fourth IEEE
International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'04), Brighton, UK, Nov, 2004
Peer-to-Peer support for massively multiplayer games
Bjorn Knutsson, Honghui Lu, Wei Xu and Bryan Hopkins
In Proc. of the 23rd Conference of the IEEE Communications Society (INFOCOM’04), Hong Kong, March 2004
RESEARCH AND WORK EXPERIENCE
Research Internships
Netease Beijing R&D Center / Yodao.com
Technical Consultant
- Lead the team for development and maintenance of the distributed storage system
Berkeley, CA
Feb - Jun, 2006
Jan - Dec, 2007
Netease Beijing R&D Center
Software Research Engineer
- Designer and lead engineer for a large scale, distributed storage system
- Designer and lead engineer for image search (http://image.yodao.com)
Beijing, China
Jun – Dec, 2006
HP Labs
Research Intern
- Research on predictive control in virtual machine resource allocations
Palo Alto, CA
Jun - Aug, 2005
Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Science (ISCAS)
Research Assistant
Beijing, China
Jul-Aug, 2002
Research Projects
Console log mining for problem detection
- Analyzing program source code to help understanding system logs
- Using statistical methods to automatically detect problems in large scale systems
2007 - Present
Internet-in-a-Box
- Porting standard Linux applications to a soft-core CPUs on FPGA
- Aiming at emulating large scale inter-network on a single FPGA board
2006-2007
Applying control theory to software systems
- Controlling data flow in distributed data stream processing systems
- Controlling request handling in three-tier J2EE application servers
2004-2006
Peer-to-Peer systems
- Querying DHT under Extreme Network Conditions
- Supporting Massively Multi-player Games with Peer-to-Peer Systems
2002-2004
Professional Activities
Program Committee Member
The 2nd Workshop on the Analysis of System Logs (WASL) 2009
Program Committee Member
Workshop on Managing Systems via Log Analysis and Machine Learning
Techniques (SLAML '10)
2009
2010
Programming and IT
Assistant Network Administrator , Law School, Upenn
Microsoft Certified System Engineer on Windows 2000 (Early Achiever)
Instructional equipment design and implementation
Digital Logics Circuit Lab, Dept. of CS&T, Tsinghua Univ.
Programmer, ANJIA Corp. Ltd. (www.anjia.com), Shanghai, China
Programmer and Network Support, Dept. of Biology, Tsinghua Univ.
Feb.- June, 2002
March, 2001
Summer, 2001
Summer, 2000
1999 -- 2001
Teaching
Teaching Assistant for CS186 (undergrad database)
EECS department, UC Berkeley
Lab Assistant of Digital System Design Course
Dept. of CS&T, Tsinghua Univ.
Spring, 2003
Summer, 2001
HONORS AND AWARDS
Department Fellowship
EECS Department, UC Berkeley,
Faculty Appreciation Award
School of Engineering and Applied Science, Univ. of Penn
Dean’s List
School of Engineering and Applied Science, Univ. of Penn
Tau Beta Pai Honor Society and Golden Key Honor Society
2004
2003
2002-2003
2002
SKILLS
Human Languages:
Proficient in English, native in Mandarin Chinese, beginning level of Japanese
Programming:
Proficient in Java, C, Pascal, and various scripting/web developing languages;
Proficient in Windows and Linux servers and virtual machines;
Proficient in server development frameworks and tools;
Extensive experience in cloud computing (both Amazon’s EC2 and Google’s AppEngine), and
in large-scale cluster computing systems;
micro-controller, x86/SPARC Assembly languages
Hardware:
REFERENCES
David Patterson pattrsn@eecs.berkeley.edu
UC Berkeley
Armando Fox fox@eecs.berkeley.edu UC Berkeley
Michael Jordan jordan@cs.berkeley.edu UC Berkeley
Ling Huang ling.huang@intel.com Intel Labs, Berkeley